OMG. . . I did the most amazing race this weekend. Check out the Warrior Dash. What a COOL race. It was supposed to be with friends, but they all backed out, so I ended up at the starting alone without friends but with 100 other WARRIORS. I made some connections pretty quick, though.
The race started with fire belching out of the starting line which actually helped. By this time I was shivering and fire warmed me up while I waited for my turn to cross the timing mat. The first 200 yards were nothing but a normal race with some of the steepest hills I’ve ever done in my life, but then I ended up at a pond with five logs 4 feet in diameter in 45* water that was chest high. I had to scale all five logs. . . and I did with help and giving help to several other warriors.
Then onward up a muddy boggy slope to another obstacle….easy one this time. But the next one was difficult. It was called the wolfs spider web. It wasn’t hard except that it totally screwed up our depth perception. We could see that something was there, but it was difficult to find them without getting tangled in them. Then a few more climbing challenges, several rope challenges that were difficult at best, (splinter galore and lots of mud) then more steep hills. And when I say steep hills that we had to climb, the event organizers understood that we were in mud and may need some help. They had ropes dangling down so we could actually pull ourselves up these horrible, oxygen stealing hills. Or repel ourselves down them, whatever the case may be. I actually just sat on one and slid down on my behind.
THEN, we came to these tunnels. Okay, no big deal, except once in them. . . . everything was pitch black and they went on for eons. I was crawling, running into other racers, have other racers run into me. We couldn’t see ANYTHING. But once outta that we only had a few more obstacles to go.
Next was the fire pits. I was fine with what I saw in the intro videos, but what I had in front of me was WAY bigger. So I stopped and watched a few others do it first. Those flames were waist high. But I ran and scaled them all. I could feel the flames but didn’t get scorched.
But the last obstacle was a mud pit however it wasn’t too deep at first, but it varied. There was a lot of barbed wire across the top. I had to crawl through this mud pit, under the barbed wire. . . . and it was long and scary. But I made it to the finish line covered in mud, totally proud.
I am a WARRIOR. I even have a viking hat to prove it!
Wanna do the race with me next year? It is amazingly fun, totally challenging and NOTHING like you’ve ever done before. See you at the starting line.
